James Franco has not spoken to his longtime friend and collaborator Seth Rogen in the years since Franco settled a sexual misconduct lawsuit and admitted to sleeping with students at the acting school he ran, the actor revealed in a new interview with Variety. Asked if the two men, who started their careers together on Freaks and Geeks before co-starring in numerous films including Pineapple Express, This Is the End, and The Interview, are still in touch, Franco said no. “I haven’t talked to Seth,” he said. “I love Seth, we had 20 great years together, but I guess it’s over. And not for lack of trying. I’ve told him how much he’s meant to me.” Following the public scandal, Rogen said in 2021 he had no plans to keep working with Franco, explaining, “I despise abuse and harassment and I would never cover or conceal the actions of someone doing it, or knowingly put someone in a situation where they were around someone like that.” The ex-friends were last photographed in public together at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, where Franco won a Best Actor trophy for their final collaboration, The Disaster Artist. Like Rogen, Franco wore a TIME’S UP pin, which prompted multiple women to start speaking out against him.

A Northern Irish man whose online catfishing caused the death of a 12-year-old American girl has been sentenced to 20 years-to-life in prison. Alexander McCartney, 26, admitted to 185 charges involving 70 children, but police estimate he may have upwards of 3,500 victims. McCartney posed as a teenage girl on social media to befriend young girls globally, procure illicit images from them, and then blackmail them into performing sex acts. He is believed to be the U.K.’s “most prolific catfish offender,” according to The Irish Times. Cimarron Thomas of West Virginia died by suicide in May 2018 after refusing McCartney’s demands to involve her younger sister in sex acts. Her father, Ben Thomas, died by suicide 18 months later. McCartney previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter because of Thomas’ death. His offenses cover a period from 2014 to 2019, and he has been in prison since 2019. He was also arrested several times between 2016 and 2019 but continued to offend.

If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing or texting 988.

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More than a dozen Trump administration officials signed a letter Friday reaffirming John Kelly’s assertion that Donald Trump would govern like a dictator, fits the definition of a fascist, and has no concept of the Constitution or the rule of law. Kelly served as one of Trump’s chiefs of staff. “This is who Donald Trump is,” the officials said in a letter obtained by Politico. “We were sadly not surprised by what General Kelly had to say,” the letter continues. “We applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark details the danger of a second Trump term. Like General Kelly, we did not take the decision to come forward lightly. We are all lifelong Republicans who served our country. However, there are moments in history where it becomes necessary to put country over party. This is one of those moments,” the letter states. “Everyone should heed General Kelly’s warning.” The officials included Kevin Carroll former senior counselor to Kelly; former assistant secretary of homeland security Elizabeth Neumann; former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci; former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security Miles Taylor; former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham; and former press secretary to the vice president Alyssa Farah Griffin.

The origin of a ”severe” E. coli outbreak affecting McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has been linked back to the sandwich’s onions. Supplier U.S. Foods announced Wednesday that Taylor Farms had issued a recall notification for yellow onions, jumbo peeled, diced and whole peeled, “due to potential E. coli contamination,” reports NBC News. An FDA spokesperson told NBC that the agency is now investigating the supplier and “all possible sources” as the cause of the outbreak. Out of precaution, Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut have all pulled onions from a portion of their restaurants. “There is no crossover with McDonald’s for the vast majority of our onion facilities,” said a Burger King spokesperson in a Thursday statement to Today.com. However, the spokesperson said “about 5% of” of the company’s restaurants do receive onions distributed from the Taylor Farms Colorado facility. The difference is that Burger King employees “only uses whole, fresh onions” that employees process by hand daily. Following the announcement, the restaurant giant said it has “reviewed our restaurant supply.” The spokesperson added, “We proactively asked our 5% of restaurants who received whole onions distributed by this facility to dispose of them immediately two days ago, and we are in the process of restocking them from other facilities.” There have been 49 cases, 10 hospitalizations, and one death connected to the outbreak, according to the CDC.

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Matthew Perry and his mother shared a tender conversation right before the star’s death that in retrospect seemed like a “premonition,” his mother said in an interview with Today. Suzanne Morrison described how, when her son was showing her a new house, “He came up to me and he said, ‘I love you so much, and I’m so happy to be with you now.’ It was almost as though it was a premonition or something. I didn’t think about it at the time, but I thought, ‘How long has it been since we’ve had a conversation like this?’ It’s been years.” The Friends star was found dead in his hot tub at age 54 in October of last year. An autopsy report found he had likely passed out from ketamine use—the effects of which were exacerbated by a pre-existing heart disease—and drowned. Perry had openly battled addition and depression throughout his career. He had reportedly been clean for 19 months before he began abusing ketamine. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have charged five people in connection with his death: two doctors, two drug dealers, and Perry’s longtime personal assistant. Morrison told Today that her son seemed to think it was inevitable something tragic would happen to him. “He said, ‘I’m not frightened anymore,’ and it worried me,” she said.

Sarah Danser, a fan favorite on the reality TV show Naked and Afraid, has died in a car accident in Hawaii, People reported. Danser, 34, was a Scuba diver, boat captain, and self-proclaimed “pirate” who had lived in Hawaii for the past 12 years. She was rushed to the hospital after a speeding driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the parked car she was sitting in, and later died of her injuries. “Magical is the way to describe her,” her brother Jake Danser told a local news station. “Sarah had this positive energy about her that just really filled the environment that she was in.” In Naked and Afraid, two strangers are left in the wilderness without clothes, food, water, or shelter, and have to survive for 21 days. They’re allowed to bring one item they think will help them. In 2017, Danser won over viewers—and her hostile Navy SEAL partner—when she used her diving goggles to catch lobsters on the sea floor and figured out how to focus the mask’s lens to start a fire. She was brought back for the spin-off show Naked and Afraid XL, which extends the challenge to 40 days. Her XL teammate described her as “one of the most adventurous souls I’ve ever met.” Her colleagues at Island Divers Hawaii, where she worked, wrote on Instagram, “Heavy hearts as we say goodbye to a good friend and great captain… You will be greatly missed.”

The country is split exactly down the middle on Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, according to the latest national poll conducted by the New York Times and Siena College, the final one ahead of the Nov. 5 general election. The poll, which comes as both candidates campaign feverishly to win over swing state voters, found that Trump and Harris each claimed the support of 48 percent of likely voters. In The New York Times’ analysis of its own poll, the paper said the result didn’t bode well for Harris, who had a three-point lead in its previous poll. “In recent elections, Democrats have had an edge in the popular vote even when they have lost the Electoral College and thus the White House,” the Times analysis reads. “They have been looking to Ms. Harris to build a strong national lead as a sign that she would do well in such critical swing states as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.” All the other major national polls also have the race for the popular vote within 3 percentage points.

Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post has endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election race two years after writing that he was “unworthy” of being president again. The traditionally right-leaning publication, with the third-largest print circulation in the country, wrote in 2022 that Trump’s silence on Jan. 6 was “damning.” In an editorial, the Post concluded: “As a matter of character, Trump has proven himself unworthy to be this country’s chief executive again.“ The paper now says that the former president is the clear choice to “put the nation on the right path.” While acknowledging that Trump can be “ridiculously hyperbolic,” the Post Editorial Board said his first term results “were paychecks that grew markedly faster than inflation, the lowest unemployment in 50 years, a secure border and peace overseas.” The board added: “In 2021 when Biden-Harris took over, the country took a hard left turn with disastrous results.” The Post blames illegal immigration, “radical and ridiculous culture wars over DEI and gender equality,” and a world on the brink of war. “Any close study of her record shows it to be that of a San Francisco progressive,” the Post says of Kamala Harris. No mention of Jan. 6.

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At a NewsNation town hall for undecided Detroit voters on Thursday night, vice presidential candidate JD Vance was interrupted by a call from his boss. Donald Trump phoned in with what he considered “quite an interesting” question: “How brilliant is Donald J. Trump?” Vance laughed hard at this for a full 10 seconds, rocking back and forth on his chair like a suck-up, before conceding that the former president is “very brilliant” and telling the audience about the first time Trump met Vance’s wife, Usha. Vance had a harder time answering Trump’s second question—“how brilliant is Kamala?”—exercising rare restraint in dismissing it as a “tough one.” Elsewhere in the program, however, Vance complained that Harris was wasting time on “petty grievances from years ago” in addressing Trump’s alleged admiration of Hitler. Harris called her opponent a “fascist,” echoing recent remarks by former White House chief of staff John Kelly, whom Vance dismissed as a “disgruntled ex-employee.”

A new profile of Usha Vance written after interviews with her friends and colleagues from law school portrays the would-be second lady as a well-liked, academically impressive student who was on track for a prestigious legal career before her husband’s rapid political ascent to Donald Trump’s running mate. “She didn’t seem to have strong emotions,” one of Usha’s former friends from Yale Law School told The Cut. “It didn’t seem like things got to her that much, and she was never very vulnerable,” the friend said, adding–“sincerely,” according to The Cut–that “I kind of wonder if she’s a sociopath.” In Law School, Usha clerked for future Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and eventually Chief Justice John Roberts. She landed a job in corporate law for Munger, Tolles & Olsen, but never made partner at the firm before resigning after Vance was announced as Trump’s vice presidential pick. Usha was a registered Democrat, who reportedly planned to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Another friend described her speech at the Republican National Convention as “surreal,” The Washington Post reported. However, another friend of the Vances quoted in The Cut said she was fully onboard with her husband’s Trumpian turn: “When people say leave Usha out of it—well, she’s in.” A spokesperson for Usha Vance did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.